Georgiana Bee Blunt is a respectable widow of means who
knows exactly what she wants: a resourceful frontiersman--
for the purpose of matrimony.

Citified men with thoughts of love need not apply to
Georgiana's ad for a husband. What she desperately needs is
a rugged backwoodsman who can get her family safely to
California, two thousand miles away. Someone who could
wrestle a bear and not break a sweat. Someone just like
Matt Slater...

Travel worn and trail weary, Matt Slater wants a clean bed
and some R & R--not a woman with fancy airs and a brood of
high-spirited children. He can tell Georgiana is trouble,
but doesn't realize how much until he's bamboozled into
pretending to be her fiancé. And when Georgiana hitches her
wagons to his train, Matt finds himself facing something
much more daunting than the journey before them: a woman
with the spirit and the courage to tame his wild ways...